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With 4,390m of drilling wrapped up, Labyrinth says the underground drilling program is approaching completion and a maiden resource is on track for the September quarter (reports Stockhead).

Mining investment titan Evy Hambro says the second half of this year could be a “pretty exciting time” for commodity markets if China pushes hard to meet its official economic growth targets (reports The Australian Financial Review).

Greenvale is beefing up its renewable energy portfolio with the acquisition of privately held geothermal company Within Energy that has three tenure applications in Queensland (reports Stockhead).

The managing director of Boss Energy, which has given the final green light to a $113 million restart of the Honeymoon uranium mine in far-north South Australia, says demand is rising as prices reach 10-year highs and governments around the world seek to lock in new supplies amid geo-political turmoil (reports The Australian Financial Review).

Last year, Rick Rule, well-known mining investor and president & CEO of Sprott US Holdings, said the easy money in uranium had been made (reports Stockhead).

Pilbara Minerals has appointed resource sector executive Dale Henderson as its new managing director and chief executive, following an exhaustive international search (reports The West Australian).

Lithium prices across the board have gone parabolic since the bull market kicked off in January 2021, but a bearish Goldman Sach research report — plus news that a China co is buying 6 lithium mines in Africa to feed automaker BYD — has brought it all to a halt… for now (reports Stockhead).

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Pilbara Minerals has reinforced analysts’ bullish lithium predictions after securing a record price for 5000 dry metric tonnes of the critical battery raw material sold on its unique digital auction platform (reports The Australian Financial Review)

Elon Musk wants to mine it, China is scouring Tibet for it, battery makers are crying out for it (reports Bloomberg).